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Blowout. How the tire problem turned into a crisis for Firestone and Ford. Lack of a database masked the pattern that led to yesterday's big recall. The heat and the pressure.

Number 20472
Subject Business
Source Wall Street Journal (New York)
State NY
Year 2000
Publication Date August 10, 2000
Summary According to the article, "Yesterday, ine the face of a federal investigation into 46 deaths and more than 300 incidents involving Firestone tires that allegedly shredded on the highway, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. said it would recall more than 6.5 million tires, the majority of them mounted as original equipment on Ford Motor Co. Explorers and other Ford light trucks. The Firestone brands affected are certain 15-inch Radial ATX and Radial ATX II tires produced in North America and certain Wilderness AT tires with product code P235/75R15 that were manufactured at Firestone's Decatur, Ill. plant."
Category General
Pages 3
Keywords Firestone;Ford;tires;blowouts;Ford Motor Company;Ford Explorers;Decatur;IL;deaths;danger;recall
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